[95.06] Testing Models of Structure Formation

E. Gawiser, J. Silk (U.C. Berkeley)

We combine detections of Cosmic Microwave Background
anisotropy with observations of Large Scale Structure
to test various models of structure formation in
the universe. We find that the current data are
sufficiently precise to rule out some models but that
several survive. If we allow the primordial power
spectrum to deviate significantly from scale-invariance,
some otherwise marginal models can be brought into
agreement with the observations. We demonstrate the
power that this method of analysis will have for
future high-precision data.